• @Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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    110 months ago

    He clearly wasn’t. The Buttigieg campaign focuses on turnout in areas the Sanders campaign ignored and won the contest because of the rules of the Iowa caucus, which allocate delegates to each individual precinct not based on their turnout but on their overall population. Sanders did well in highly attended precincts, Buttigieg beat him by outperforming him in less well attended precincts.

    It’s the way the rules were. Bernie could have employed the same strategy, but he didn’t.